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Wembley Stadium Wikipedia. This article is about the stadium opened in 2. For the original stadium it replaced, see Wembley Stadium 1. Wembley StadiumThe Home of Football1New Wembley. Location. Wembley, London, England. Coordinates. 513. N01. 64. 7W 5. N 0. W 5. Coordinates 5. N01. 64. 7W 5. N 0. W 5. Public transit. Wembley Park. Wembley Stadium. Wembley Central. 
Owner. The Football Association. Operator. Wembley National Stadium Limited. Executive suites. Capacity. 90,0. 002 Association football, rugby league, rugby union, boxing7. American football 8. UEFA capacityRecord attendance. Watch Westminster Bridge Online Forbes' title='Watch Westminster Bridge Online Forbes' />Adele, June 2. Field size. 10. 5 by 6. Surface. Desso Grass. Master. Construction. Broke ground. 30 September 2. Built. 20. 032. 00. Opened. 9 March 2. Construction cost7. Architect. HOK Sport now Populous, Foster and Partners, Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners planning consultants7Project manager. Symonds8Structural engineer. Mott Stadium Consortium Mott Mac. Donald, Sinclair Knight Merz Aurecon8Services engineer. Mott Mac. Donald8General contractor. Watch Westminster Bridge Online Forbes' title='Watch Westminster Bridge Online Forbes' />Multiplex Constructions UK Ltd8Tenants. England national football team 2. Tottenham Hotspur F. C. 2. 01. 72. 01. Websitewembleystadium. Wembley Stadium is a football stadium in Wembley, London, England, which opened in 2. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 2. The stadium hosts major football matches including home matches of the England national football team, and the FA Cup Final. The stadium is also the temporary home of Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur while White Hart Lane is being demolished and their new stadium is being constructed. Wembley Stadium is owned by the governing body of English football, the Football Association the FA, through its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Ltd WNSL. The FA headquarters are in the stadium. With 9. 0,0. 00 seats, it is the largest football stadium in England, the largest stadium in the UK and the second largest stadium in Europe. Designed by Populous and Foster and Partners, it includes a partially retractable roof and the 1. Wembley Arch. The stadium was built by Australian firm Multiplex at a cost of 7. In addition to England home games and the FA Cup final, the stadium also hosts other major games in English football, including the season opening FA Community Shield, the League Cup final, the FA Cup semi finals, the Football League Trophy, the Football League play offs, the FA Trophy, the FA Vase and the National League play offs. A UEFA category four stadium, Wembley hosted the 2. UEFA Champions League Finals, and will host both the semi finals and final of UEFA Euro 2. The stadium hosted the Gold medal matches at the 2. Olympic Games football tournament. The stadium also hosts rugby leagues Challenge Cup final, NFL London Games and music concerts. StadiumeditWembley was designed by architects Foster Partners and Populous formally HOK Sport and with engineers Mott Stadium Consortium, who were a collection of three structural engineering consultants in the form of Mott Mac. Donald Ltd, Sinclair Knight Merz and Aurecon. The design of the building services was carried out by Mott Mac. Donald. The construction of the stadium was managed by Australian company Brookfield Multiplex and funded by Sport England, WNSL Wembley National Stadium Limited, the Football Association, the Department for Culture Media and Sport and the London Development Agency. It is one of the most expensive stadia ever built at a cost of 7. Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners was appointed to assist Wembley National Stadium Limited in preparing the scheme for a new stadium and to obtain planning and listed building permission for the development. The all seater stadium is a bowl design with a capacity of 9. It can also be adapted as an athletic stadium by erecting a temporary platform over the lowest tier of seating. The stadiums signature feature is a circular section lattice arch of 7 m 2. It supports all the weight of the north roof and 6. The archway is the worlds longest unsupported roof structure. A platform system has been designed to convert the stadium for athletics use, but its use would decrease the stadiums capacity to approximately 6. No athletics events track and field have taken place at the stadium, and none are scheduled. The conversion for athletics use was a condition of part of the lottery funding the stadium received, but to convert it would take weeks of work and cost millions of pounds. Constructionedit. The stadium in its very early stages of construction circa August 2. Watch Mystery, Alaska Download. The initial plan for the reconstruction of Wembley was for demolition to begin before Christmas 2. In 2. 00. 4, London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Brent Council also announced wider plans for the regeneration of Wembley, taking in the arena and the surrounding areas as well as the stadium, to be implemented over two or three decades. Demolition officially began on 3. September 2. 00. 2, with the Twin Towers being dismantled in December 2. Delays to the construction project started as far back as 2. In December 2. 00. Cleveland Bridge Engineering Company of Darlington, warned Multiplex about rising costs. Cleveland Bridge withdrew from the project and replaced by Dutch firm Hollandia with all the attendant problems of starting over. Patrick OSullivan for which construction firm PC Harrington Contractors were fined 1. In October 2. 00. Sports Minister Richard Caborn announced They say the Cup Final will be there, barring six feet of snow or something like that. By November 2. 00. WNSL were still hopeful of a handover date of 3. March, in time for the cup final on 1. May. However, in December 2. In February 2. 00. FA moving the game to Cardiffs Millennium Stadium. Construction of the new Wembley, looking east, taken January 2. On 2. 0 March 2. 00. On 2. 3 March 2. 00. GMB Union leader Steve Kelly said that the problem had been caused by the pipes not being properly laid, and that the repair would take months. Rumours circulated that the reason for the blockage was due to Multiplex failing to pay the contractors who laid the pipes who then filled in the pipes with concrete. A spokesman for developers Multiplex said that they did not believe this would have any impact on the completion of the stadium, which was then scheduled to be completed on 3. March 2. 00. 6. On 3. March 2. 00. 6, the developers announced that Wembley Stadium would not be ready until 2. All competitions and concerts planned were to be moved to suitable locations. On 1. 9 June 2. 00. On 1. 9 October 2. Football Association and Multiplex had finally been settled. Captain Horatio Hornblower Tv Series. WNSL was expected to pay around 3. Multiplex, on top of the amount of the original fixed price contract. The total cost of the project including local transport infrastructure redevelopment and the cost of financing was estimated to be 1 billion. For the new stadium the level of the pitch was lowered. During excavation of the new playing field, mechanical diggers unearthed a buried obstruction the concrete foundations of Watkins Tower, a failed attempt to construct a rival to the Eiffel Tower in London. Only the base of the tower was ever built before being abandoned and demolished in 1. Wembley Stadium. 3. Handover and openingeditThe new stadium was completed and handed over to the FA on 9 March 2. The official Wembley Stadium website had announced that the stadium would be open for public viewing for local residents of Brent on 3 March 2. March. While the stadium had hosted football matches since the handover in March, the stadium was officially opened on Saturday 1. May, with the staging of the 2. FA Cup Final. Eight days before that on Friday 1. May, the statue of Bobby Moore had been unveiled by Sir Bobby Charlton outside the stadium entrance, as the finishing touch to the completion of the stadium. The twice life size bronze statue, sculpted by Philip Jackson, depicts Englands 1. Parliamentlive. tv Commons. We only use cookies on this site for anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with the services so we can make them better. When you accept, we assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from Parliamentlive.